[geeks] software for WRT54G

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:11:01PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I'm running into problems getting a VPN connection to work on my local
> network.
> 
> My LAN looks kind of like this:
> 
> 192.168.100.0/24
> 
> 	This is an "exterior" network, with just a WRT54G connected to
> 	my WAN connection.  It does minimal NAT and wireless work.
> 
> 192.168.1.0/24
> 
> 	This is my main network, and it's router is a Snapgear SG300,
> 	with the WRT54G being its default router, and the SG300 being the
> 	default route for my "inner" LAN.
> 
> I know at least a couple of people that do VPN with the same general
> setup, so I can't think of any reason this should not work.
> 
> The SG300 has VPN software, and the WRT54G has ipsec,pptp,i2pt pass
> through enabled, but I still cannot get VPN working.
> 
> I've read online that a lot of people have trouble getting VPN working
> through a WRT54G.
> 
> I have read that moving to sveasoft firmware will fix this.
> 
> Any ideas or recommendations on better firmware for the SG300 that might
> help? sveasoft seems pretty old (last update in 2004).
> 
> I have the latest firmware in the WRT54G, version 4.2.1 or close to
> that, and the ipsec FAQ I found says that it will only work with version
> 2.31 of the firmware. I can't go back, because 4.x has things I need.
> 
> One problem I'm also running into is the WRT54G has very limited number
> of routes and forwards, and I'm running out of them.  I would hope that
> replacement firmware would not have that kind of limit.

I run the firmware from dd-wrt.com on my WRT54g.  

I have been able to VPN out just fine with different VPN products.

By default, it was set up with the Maximum open ports to 512, which runs
out pretty quickly when you have a few torrents running, I have it set
to 3072, max setting allowed is 4096.

You are trying to VPN from the main network out through the Snapgear,
then the WRT54G, to someplace out on the internet?

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org